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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-26
Tree Planting on the Plains.

In no portion of the country is tree
planting more generally practiced than
In those states which lie between the
Mississippi River and the Rocky
Mountains. The prairie settlers
found but little timber, and that con-
fined to the borders of the streams.
They began to plant trees, first ap-
parently for protection against the
strong winds, and afterwards for fuel
and other purposes. In most cases
the Western cottonwood (POpulus
angulata), was the favorite for shell
ter belts, while willows are to be seen
in many places. Although much has
been said by writer's on forestry
against the cottonwood, yet / regard
it as one of the best pioneer trees. AS
LAS been shown by experience, it will
thrive upon the open plain, when
many q better tree would make but
little growth, or die outright. It's
quick growth enables the settler to
supply himself in a. short time with
fuel, not the best by any means, but
still a fuel worth the having.
But the day of the cottonwood is
short. 1t is like the human pioneer;
it's work is soon done, and then it
must give place to better growth.
After the cottonwood has shaded the
ground, and kept the winds from
sweeping the surface, the maple, the
walnut, the catalpa and the ash find
no difficulty in obtaining foothold.
Often,i indeed, the silver maple (Acer
dasocarpum), and the box elder
(Negundo aoeroi6esl, are planted sue
cessfully almost as soon as the cot
tonwood, and serve, like it, to furnish
fuel, and to prepare the soil for other
trees. Eventually, the walnut, elm,
ash and catalpa are the species to be
most abundantly planted for fuel and
for timber. The hard maple (Acer
saccharinun1), must wait until the
soil and the air have been much modi-
fed before it can be successfully
planted. So, too, with oaks, the
chestnut and the beech. Of ever
green's, the Scotch and the Austrian
pines may be made to grow with little
difficulty, after the pioneer trees have
accomplished their ameliorating work.
Prof Chas. E. Bessey, in American
AgrIsulturist.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-26
Farm Notes.

THE age of g. cow has much to dc
with her value as q milker. A COW
with her first calf never milks as well
as with her third or fourth one, and
for g. dairy animal, as g. rule, is unprof.
liable. For this reason care should be
taken in buying COWS for the dairy to
obtain those with their second or third
calves, not with the first one.
SOME easy mixers will suddenly be.
come hard mixers. Probably moth
ing will produce this effect quicker
than dragging the udder through mud
or muddy water. The cow may wade
through mud to drink or in crossing q
spring run, and the same application
for one that milks too easy and leaks
her milk would be far better than
alum water Or oak bark tea. It will
make the skin as rough as toad's
back in a short time.
The experience of every farmer who
has q garden is probably to the effect
that vegetables dry up and cease to
grow and even become unfit for use
more quickly than other crops. In
view of this fact and the great desira-
bllity of keeping up g. stock of vege-
tables it would be q good idea to
mulch at least g. portion of those
crops that dry soonest. Itwould not
be much trouble and would certainly
pay splendidly in season of drought.
CABBAGE SEED varies considerably
in size. Experiments made at the Ag-
ricultural Experiment Station in &C.
neva, N. Y, during 1885, have shown
no perceptible difference in the results
from larger and smaller seed. Seed
gathered before fully ripe seems to
produce heavier heads than that fully
matured. These hints prove of value
to the gardener who grows his own
seed.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-26

We like to read paragraph &C.
casionally in the metropolitan agri-
cultural papers, as an Offset to the
clownishness which they constantly
attribute to the "Wild West" The
American Dairyman is published in
New York by a distinguished charac-
ter, who is either president or secre-
tary of nearly all the national dairy
associations, and who makes grand
levies upon the dairymen Of the coun.
try for his fees, or lobbying expenses
at Washington. In an article recon-
mending raising sorghum as q substi-
tute for corn where the climate does
not suit the latter plant, the editor of
the Dairyman says:
1t yields Is to 80 bushels of seed to
the acre which weighs Sd to sc pounds
to the bushel, and sells for more than
corn. The tops and leaves are good
either fed green or for winter dry fod-
der, and are regarded as better than
common corn fodder, while the COWS
yield as much sugar and syrup as
those of Louisiana, if properly
handled.
Now, if feeding g. cow on sorghum
will make her give sugar and syrup,
why cannot our breeders make an ad-
ditional improvement, and produce a.
cow, which by some varieties of food
could be made to produce sugar out
of one teat, syrup out of another,
coffee out of a third, and milk out of
the fourth. This would be grand
thing for poor town people, especially
wher they have no saloons. The
bright genius of the Dairyman had
better devote his talents to develop
ing such cow.-Iowa State Register.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-26
THE SINGERS REWARD.

He sung of midnights gloomy,
Ofgardens bright and bloomy,
OF stars and wars, of seas and shores
He knew he was inspired.
He lived on heights elysian;
Hopes fsnciee charmed his vision;
He won some fame but no cash came
This last fact made him tired
To follow high ideals
When hunger on you steals
Is such game that soon grows tame;
He did not thrive on hope,
But dropped his lofty singing,
And now grows rich by stringing
Together rhymes to suit the times
About a patent soap.
-Harpeq's Baz1r.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-26
Value of Charcoal.

Charcoal is one of the best disinfect-
ants and purifiers of the animal sys-
tenn we have, or at least that we know
of. When fowls are afflicted with such
diseases as roup or any other putrid
affections, charcoal is OF great service,
as it helps greatly to purify the digest
i've organs and acts as q stimulus by
purifying the blood and toning up the
system IN general.
1t does not need to be crushed up
fine mixed with other food and thus
compel them to eat it, but all that is
necessary is to break it up in small
pieces convenient for them to swallow
and they will eat it themselves, and in
fact it is wonderful to see how much
they will eat when they have the OPP
portunity, and it does one good to
watch them eat it, as they seem to en-
JOY it so much. It is without doubt g.
great benefit to them and even healthy
fowls are benefited, for it serves
to keep them healthy and they
will produce more eggs if they have
plenty Of charcoal of easy access.
The cost of charcoal is but g. trife,
even when bought, and if you burn
WOOD In your stove the fine ashes may
be sifted out and the black Goals saved
out and pounded up in pieces about
the size of q grain of corn and placed
in small piles where the fowls can get
it easily. 1t is especially valuable
during the spring and summer months.
for then it is that the bloodis sluggish
and needs something to purify it, and
it is from this reason, principally, that
most of the poultry diseases come
during these months. Neither the
trouble nor expense amounts to any
thing worth noticing, and the benefit
to The fowls is no trifie [ can assure
you. Fowls must be cared for, and
cared for properly, if one wants profit
and enjoyment from them.-N. S. w.,
n Practical Farmer.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-26

THE magical effects of ST Jacobs Oil
in removing soreness and stiffness
makes it invaluable at all times.
Rheumatism and Neuralgia promptly
Weld to it.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-26
Nervous Horses.

Finely bred, intelligent horses are
very often nervous. They are quick
to take notice, quick to take alarm,
quick to do what seems to them, in
moments Of sudden terror, necessary
to escape from possible harm, from
something they do not understand.
That is what makes them shy, bolt
and run away. We cannot tell what
awful suggestions strange things offer
to their minds. For aught we can
tell, a sheet of white paper in the road
may seem to the nervous horse a
yawning chasm, the open front of q
baby carriage the jaws of a dragon
ready to devour him, and man on a
bicycle some terrifying sort of flying
devil without wings.
But we find that the moment he be-
comes familiar with those things or
any others that alright him, and
knows what they are, he grows indif-
ferent to them. Therefore, when your
horse SHES at anything make him &C
quainted with 1t; let him smell it.,
touch it with his sensitive upper lip,
and look closely at it. Remember,
too, that you must familiarize both
sides of him with the dreaded object.
If he only examines it with the near
nostril and eye, he will be very apt to
scare at it when it appears on his off
side.
So, then, rattle your paper, beat
your brass drum, hutter your UNI.
brella, run your baby carriage and
your bicycle, fire your pistol, and
clatter your tinware on both sides Of
him and all around him until he comes
to regard the noise simply as g. nui-
sance and the material objects as only
trivial things liable to get hurt if they
are in his way. He may not learn all
that in one lesson, but continue the
lesson and you viii cure all his nerv-
BUSINESS.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-26

DIR. Gross, physician at st. Vim
cents Hospital, Baltimore, Md, con-
siders Red Star Cough Cure perfectly
harmless. being purely vegetable and
entirely free from opiates, poisons
and other narcotics. Other PROBES
SIGNALS also endorse it as prompt,
safe and sure. Price, twenty five
cents bottle.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-26

A Noncompliance has received an.
swers from 1 900 school girls to the
question: "Who is your favorite au-
thor?" Dickens received $50 votes;
Scott, 226; Kingsley and G. M. Yonge,
81 each; Shakespeare, rs; George Eli
OF, Al, and other prominent authors a
less number.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-26

A LIFE size portrait of Lord Ran
dolph Churchill is being painted for
the Constitution Club of London, to
be placed beside one of Beacons-
field.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-26

PoLoNAisEs trimmed with fur are
coming in vogue.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-26

Time went on; Mr.. Hodgson did not
return to Turin, and Mr.. Mathers paid
several visits to the Count residence,
coming away more in love every time.
Meanwhile, by dint of going about con-
tinually among the citizens, the young
man was able to send home 80 good a
list OF prospective customers that the
partners determined to establish g.
branch Office at Turin, and offer
young Mathers g. subordinate post
in it.
Nothing definite, however, had been
fixed, when one day Tommy, finding
Maria Marsoni alone when he called
at the villa, lost his head completely,
and was making love as well as his
imperfect knowledge of Italian per-
mitted, when the Count, suddenly
coming in, caught him in the act of
kissing his daughters hand.
Maria fled like a hare disturbed on
her form, and the Count advanced
with g. heavy frown on his aristocratic
brow.
More as a matter of form than any
thing else, for he knew his case was
hopeless, Mathers formally asked the
hand of the signora in marriage, lay
ing the blame of his irregular declara-
tion on the strength of his passion and
his ignorance of Italian etiquette.
The Count heard him to the end,
and then surveyed him from head to
foot with n look of contempt.
at is piece of great presumption
in you, mere clerk, a nobody, to adj
dress my daughter" said the Count
at last, in Englisk, with his chin in the
air.
"Of course" said Tommy, bitterly,
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-09-28
The Presidents Tour.

WASHINGTON, September 24.-The sr-
rangements for the Presidents trip have
been completed. The party will consist
of the President and Mrs. Cleveland,
and probably Secretaries Bayard and
Lamar and Colonel Lamont.
They viii start on Friday morning OF
next week on the Pennsylvania Road.
The first stop will be made at Indian
apolis for a few hours, and the next at
Terrc Haute, Ind, for few minutes.
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday will be
spent in st. Louis, Wednesday in Chi
cago, Friday in Milwaukee and Sunday
with Postmaster General Villas al Madi-
son, Wis. On Wednesday night travel
Will be resumed, and st. Paul and Min
neapoGs viii consume Thursday and
Friday. On Friday night they will start
fer Omaha across Minnesota and Iowa.
On Saturday Kansas City will be reached
on the eastward return. Sunday will be
spent partly in Memphis. and on Mon
day, October II, the President will open
the Piedmont exhibition st Atlanta, Ga.
Other dates ere still unsettled, but
Montgomery, Ala, IS pretty sure to be
7iSiteG, and after detour to Chattanoo-
ga, Knoxville and Nashville, Tenn, the
GirccU line across the mountains Will be
through Virginia to Washington. They
hope to reach here on October %, ready
to begin work on the following Monday.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-09-28
STARVING 4. JURY.

An Ancient Method of Forcing Verdict.
Jurymen are better off in these times
than in the good old days, when it was
the law to endeavor to starye them into
verdict. 1t is bad enough now to be
put to loss Of time and money, with little
or inadequate recompense, without be-
ing starved or fined in the bargain.
In the early part of the reign of Henry
VIII. Lord Chef Justice Reed tried an
action when on circuit in which the jury
were locked rS, out before giving their
verdict had eaten and drunk, which they
all confessed. This being reported to
the Judge, he fined them each heavily,
and took the verdict.
In Hilary Term, sixth Henry VIII,
the case came up bsfore the full Court
of Queens Bench on a joint motion to
set aside the verdict, on the ground of
informality OF trial, the jury having
eaten when they should have tasted, and
next remit the fines under the peculiar
circumstances Of the case. The jury
averred that they had made up their
minds in the case before they ate, and
had returned into court With a verdict,
but, finding the Lord Chief Justice had
run out to see fray" and not know
ing when he might come back, they had
refreshments. The Court confirmed both
the verdict and the fines.
IL "Dyer's Reports, % case is report
ed of jury who retired to consider their
verdict, and when they came back the
bailiff informed the Judge that some of
them (Which he could not depose) had
been feeding while locked up. Both
baihf and jury were sworn, and the
pockets OF the latter were examined,
when it appeared that they al had about
them "pippins," Of which ''sone Of
them confessed they had eaten, and
the others said they had not" AL were
severely reprimanded, aud those who
had eaten were fined twelve shillings
each, and those who had not eaten were
fined six shillings each, for that they had
them in their pockets.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-09-28
FRAUD IN COLORADO.
y Newspaper Nan, an Interview and \
Check.

DEL NoETE, COL, September 20.-A
week ago last Sunday young man ar
rived here and registered as E. L. Vance,
Mexico. He announced that he was
special correspondent OF the New York
Herald, and exhibited a telegram signed
James Gordon Bennett, instructing him
to interview Senator Bowen upon the
leading questions of the day. He was
well received, and obtained an inter
view, not only with Senator Bowen, but
otbex prominent citizens. The follow
ing day he proposed to leave by stage
sor Villa Grove. Prior to his departure
be asked one Of his new acquaintances to
identify him at the bank, where he pre-
sented a 5000 check on the Chemical
National Bank Of New York, signed by
James Gordon Bennett and payable to
Edward L. Nrnce. The check was
cashed. To-day kilograms were received
stating that Mr. Bennett had no money
in the bank and denouncing Vance as
fraud. Vance is tall, very slender, dark
complexion, wore eyeglasses and 3
Slight moustache. He showed d wide
newspaper experience and an ability to
catch the unwary.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-09-28
The Grand Army and the President.

From the Grand Army Record, de-
voted to The Interests Of the Grand
Army OF the Republic, these extracts are
taken: Comrades, the men who are
outraging American citizenship and be-
lying the loyalty OF our order by their
disrespect to the President, are partisans
who want to rule regardless of the iabil-
ity of ruin to country or to orgaDlza-
ton" x freedoms soil is no
place for displaying prejudice on account
of race, color or religious belief; and the
man who so bemeans himself is traitor
to tie sublirne cause OF liberty and IN
worthy the equality vouchssfed to every
true American" = "The Grand
Army Of the Republic is not in politics,
but there is 10 lack OF politics il the
Grand Army * * "Bitter par
tisarship w-M soon take the place Of true
comradeship il the Grand Army if this
spirit Of hostility ana insult to the ma
iority Of the citizens Of the country IN
the person Of their chosen representa-
tive, tne President O. the United States,
is not speedily discontinued. It is the
last straw that breaks the canel's back,
and it may De one word or act too many
that viii divide the Grand Army Of the
Republic. +"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-09-28
About EXtraUition.

The committee appointed by the
Interstate Extradition Conference have
drafted bill to be forwarded to the
Governor of each State, and presented
to Congress with memorial for its
adoption, after the State authorizes have
suggested amendments that Will have to
be passed upon by the Conference.
The principal provisions OF the pres
ent draft are as follows: A person arrest
ed in e State other than that IL which the
alleged crime was committed may be
bailed during extradition proceedings,
but must present himself within twenty
OF thirty days for extradition. At the
end of that time the accused shall be
discharged # the agent of the State IN
which the crime was committed be not
ready to receive him. Should the accused
be not able to furnish bail, he shall be
discharged after thirty days imprison-
ment if the agent is not ready. The
agent must have written authority from
the Governor of the State, surrenderirg
tLt accused and any official using vio-
lencc, threats or undue influence to
compel or induce en- alleged fugitive to
leave State to which lie had removed
himself, shall be guilty OF felony, pun
ishablc :iSh from five to ten years IN
Orisonmant o5 hard labor. A prisoner
Shall not be rested upor a civil or
criminal process until reasonable tirae
after the extradition proceeding that re
may have an opportunity to return TO
the State from which he was taken.
Should the demanding Governor become
satisfied that ihe extra6ition proceedings
have been revoked ior private purposes
he may revoke the same and discharge
the fugitive.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-09-28
THE GALLOWS FOR THE ANARCHISTS
Preparations for Executing the Law Upon
These Law-Hreakers.
tFrom the New York Times }

(From the New York Times.)
Preparations haYe already begun for
the execution OF the seven Anarchists in
the county Jail on Friday, November II.
Sheriff Matson Will receive S700 for that
days work, as the county allows him
500 for every man hanged. Just how
the big job will be accomplished has not
been decided. The three Italian mur-
derers were hanged together on the same
scafiold, and that bit OF enterprise taxed
to the utmost limit the existing hanging
capacity OF the all. One scheme is to
hang the men in pairs, leaving Albert r.
Parsons to the last as the seventh or odd
man. The law says the men must be
executed between the hours of 10 in the
morning and in the afternoon, and it
is thought that the Intervening time viii
suffice for the work on this plan. If this
mode is adopted, the modern weights
will be used. Sheriff Matson is opposed
to the plan, because OF the long-drawn-
out agony of days work at hanging,
and favors the old-fashioned platform,
trap and drop.
There is just enough room in the jail
corridor to erect an extension gibbet
twenty-eight feet long, giving four feet
space for the drop Of each body. Seven
ropes viii hang from the cross beam,
which, in turn, Will be suppo4ted by five
iron arms. The traps will be arranged
to dsop from long bar extending the
length Of the platform, by which the
seven traps can be released simultaneous
ly and the Anarchists be all launched
into eternity together. The extension
gibbet viii be erected privately in some
secret place during the next fortnight,
and experiments viii be made until it
works in satisfactory manner. If tha
condemned Anarchists really hope for
success in appealing to the Federal Su-
preme Court or to Governor Oglesby,
their hope is not shared by Sheriff Mat
son, JalIer Folz or States Attorney
Grinnell, and all necessary preparations
for the execution of the sentence Will
proceed rapidly.
The sheriff has tried hard to keep
from the papers the fact that he is pre-
pairing to put away the doomed men,
and he Will have succeeded until the
publication of this. Spies, Schwab and
Engel ere confident that their execution
will take place at the time fixed by the
Supreme Court, and Parsons is the only
one Of the number who expresses con-
fdence in the ability of their friends to
save their lives.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-09-28
a Confederate Veterans Organization.

The Confederate veterans at Pensacola
are endeavoring to introduce uniformity
among the Confederate Veteran organi-
cations. To that end it is recommended
ssthat the Confederate Veterans form
themselves into one grand body, to be
known as tie Confederate Veterans;
that the subdivisions be known as
Camp of Confederate Veterans, that the
camps be numbered from one up; that
the bylaws be uniform; that the meet
ing Of the camps of State be called q
division camp, meeting of less than q
State be called brigade camp, meet
ing Of more than one State to be called
corps camp, and that q meeting of the
entire organization be known as the
grand camp Until grand camp is
held, to indorse or alter these sugges-
tons, and to elect their officers, it is
suggested that the following officers be
declared selected for the purpose: First,
to organize and give consecutive num-
bers to ali camps. Second, to secure a
full roster Of all camps in existence.
Third, to call 6 meeting of the Grand
Camp during next July or September.
The following officers ere suggested:
Grand Commander, S. B. Buckuer, of
kentucky; Adjutant General, VIA. H.
Palmer, Of Virginia; Treasurer, William
Preston johnson, OF Louisiana; Chap
lain, Rev. J. William Jones, of Virginia.
The movement appears to be a good one
and it is not improbable that it will meet
with a hearty and general response
Savannah News.